Thiel Owners

dcancastagna,

I don’t have a slp-05.

But I do have a lot of equipment - all my home theater source equipment on one rack, and beside it all my 2 channel equipment (which include Conrad Johnson Premier 16LS2 pre-amp, Conrad Johnson mono block tube amps, an Eico HF-81 integrated tube amp, Benchmark Dac, Transrotor turntable, phono stage, JL Audio crossover, raspberry pi server...)

I have most of it plugged in to some Furman power bars, as they are good quality, a perfect design for where they had to go, and I at least wanted some level of protection as we have quite a number of futzes and power outs in our power.

In my own research looking in to power conditioners, and looking in to what people from various sides had to say, I was not sold on them. And it did seem that even the more "objectivist" electrical engineer types seemed to agree that they are more apt to be deleterious than beneficial - e.g. they can in principle limit the power going to your amp when it needs sudden big surges. So most said best to just plug power amps in to the wall - most people’s power is fine and most decent amps have a power supply designed to handle the level of noise they are most likely to encounter.


I had a dedicated line put in quite a while ago, and my amps go in to there. My sources/preamps etc go in to the furman power bar.

It seems to me that if there were really a significant problem with the power coming from the wall that sources and preamps past a pretty moderate price point would all be battery powered.  It wouldn't be particularly expensive to implement.  You don't need to turn AC into DC anymore.  Low power components don't use that much electricity so you wouldn't need huge batteries.  It could be easily designed so that it automatically switched between two batteries where one was charging while the other was in use and the battery in use was completely physically isolated from the dirty AC.  

I've thought about trying it myself with my Benchmark DAC2.  I don't think a lot of people realize it but they'll accept DC so you could, if you wanted, string some batteries together and power it that way.  Complete isolation would be better than the best power cord and power conditioner.  The DAC only takes 15 watts I think.  

hi Dan,  if you are serious about the P10 please let me know.  i will not be selling it until next month when i receive the P15 as it is on back order.  they are serious devices and are not just conditioners.  for those who are interested, please watch some of the videos on the PS site explaining why and how they work.   if we all listened to music at 2am we probably would not need them as much as that is when the power lines are the cleanest.  but since i have had one,   especially the P10,  i have not had to worry about it.   there is no snake oil with any PS products. 

apologies Prof, got you crossed up with Dhoff. Running dedicated breaker makes alot of sense.  

Gents;

As Thiels are "somewhat" resolving
lol
What DAC's do you guys run to get the most out of the system?

are there some that accentuate brightness or edge.

Jeff